Quiz7 Flashcards
What year was the Berlin Blockade
1948
What year was the Berlin Wall erected
1961
What year was the Cuban Missile Crisis
1962
Goulash communism
Khrushchev’s phrase for “adding meat to the pot for every table”
The Marshall Plan
Set forth in 1947 to counter Soviet expansion and to speed up European recovery. One of the most successful foreign initiatives.
Truman Doctrine
Committed US to defend governments threatened by communist subversion
Warsaw Pact
Made communist governments of Eastern Europe military allies
Khrushchev’s feelings about the Berlin Wall
He was partially responsible for its erection
Cuban Missile Crisis
1962 Khrushchev placed nuclear armed missiles in Cuba in response to a failed US invasion of Cuba.
Great Leap Forward
Mao Zedong’s attempt at overnight industrialization
Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
Mao’s attack on the older generations. He used Taliban or students to publicly humiliate professors, doctors were made to scrub floors in their hospitals, and scholars were abused for having foreign language books
Korean War (years)
1950-1953
Root causes of poverty in former third world countries
Only produced raw materials, unskilled labor, few opportunities for higher education and economic advancement. Even after they gained independence there are still high tariffs on finished goods
Which African colony was the first to gain independence
Gold Coast (Ghana)
Meaning of Ostpolitik
German term for Brandt’s 1960’s policy of pursuing normalized relations with west Germany’s neighbors to the east
